Cornucopia-serving device



S. A. KORNSWEET.

CORNUCOPIA SERVING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 16, 1211's.

Patented Aug. 10, 1920.

, INVENTOR.

r 6L wed MW ATTORNEY UNITED: STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

GORNUCOPIA-S ERVING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 10, 1920.

Application filed December 16, 1918. Serial No. 266,872.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMIEL A. KoaN- SWEET, a citizen of the United States, residing in Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Cornucopia-Serving Device, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for serving or dispensing a food product which is generally designated as a cornucopia by reason of its shape. Ordinarily the cornucopia serves the purpose of a container for ice cream, ices or confections of other and various descriptions. The cornucopia of the class to which I refer comprises a food product of cake-like consistency, the same being cooked to form a crisp and edible container for a confection. 1

Heretofore cornucopias have been dis pensed or served from the counter or place where filled to the consumer in a very unsanitary and objectionable manner. The customary manner referred to is for the cornucopia to be held in the hand of the clerk and while so held filled and then passed to the purchaser. This practice of allowing a contact between the cornucopia and the hand of the person filling and dispensing it necessarily results in passing to the food product any germs or filth that may be on the hand of the dispenser.

The main object of my invention is to provide a device for serving edible cornucopias in a manner which will be entirely sanitary and yet not injurious to the cornucopia or its contents.

A further object is to provide such a device which will be conveniently manipulated,

positive in action, and inexpensive in construction.

Further objects, and obiects relating to structural details, will definitely appear from the subjoined detailed description.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my cornucopia serving device illustrating a method of operating the same.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the device illustrated in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, there is illustrated a grapple member which is generally designated 2. This comprises a body 3 and carries at one end a ring-shaped member 4 which is preferably formed of spring metal. The ring-shaped member is provided with two ends 5, 6. The end 5 is secured at 7 to one side of the body 3. The end 6 is slidably received in a slot member 8 secured to the opposite side of the body 3. Attached to the end 6 is a thumb rest 9.

There is thus provided a device which may be taken in the hand as illustrated in Fig. 1 and having been placed over a cornucopia the thumb may operate on the thumb rest 9, causing the ring-shaped member 4 to contract around the cornucopia until a grip is secured thereon, and the cornucopia may then be transported at will.

The opposite end of the device 2 is preferably provided with a pair of fingers 10 which may be conveniently formed of spring metal. As the finger members 10 are relatively flat, one can be inserted between the lowermost member of the column of cornucopias and the outer surface of the next succeeding cornucopia mounted therein. The fingers may then be compressed and a grip secured on the lowermost cornucopia so that the column may be transported at will without the necessity of applying the hand thereto.

In use the operator may grasp the elongated body member and use the thumb of the same hand to operate the thumb rest. This leaves the operator with a free hand with which he can manipulate the usual scoop device to fill with ice cream the cornucopia held within the ring.

My invention is not limited to the specific details of construction comprising the preferred form of my invention illustrated in the drawings, but is of the scope set forth in the following claims.

Having thus described my invention, and it being understood that I do not desire to limit myself to the particular details of construction illustrated, I claim the following: I

1. A cornucopia serving device comprising an elongated body member, a resilient ring member secured at one end to said body member and formed in a circular curve, a slot member secured to the opposite side of the body member, said ring member being slidably received in said slot member, and

said ring member beingprovicled with a thumb rest;

2. An 1ce cream dlspensmg devlce comprising an elongated. body member, provided at one end'iwith an expanding ring member adapted to be contracted to gr p an ice cream cone, sald ring member being constructed of spring metal and adapted to ex- 

